Professor Debra Bechtel’s Corporate and Real Estate Clinic offers students the unique experience of representing low-income cooperative boards of directors as "house counsel.” With another semester now in the books – Professor Bechtel’s clinic has provided free legal services for the past 19 years – the students involved worked on a variety of real estate issues.

Professor Debra Bechtel provides commentary on a trio of bills introduced to New York City Council in March seeks to centralize information about co-ops that were born under the auspices of the Housing Development Fund Corporation.

Four BLS students will be the first interns for the New York State Bar Association's real property law section next fall. Professor Debra Bechtel teaches the Transactional and Community Development Practicum, which the students will take concurrently with their internships.